All the Street Angel bashing

[David]

Originally Posted by SpyNote

My favorite song on Street Angel is "Kick It" for all its literally allusions to Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince."

Name dropper!

I like JANE except that the lead vocal is pretty crappy. What is everybody's problem with the word "chimpanzee"? Why shouldn't Stevie put this word in a song dedicated to all the chimps of the world? She once dedicated RHIANNON to "all the witches of the world."

Stevie was touched by Goodall's work in behalf of (not "on behalf of") chimpers being poached or sold on the black market or used in research labs. Stevie herself once told an interviewer that she had to buck up & do a lot of her own strenuous dancing in STAND BACK -- "or be a CHUMP." It isn't that far from chimp to chump in rock 'n' roll.

I love DOCKLANDS. Who cares about a laundromat. The song describes alienation & loss better than any song she herself was writing at the time. And it's a great song musically, too, with a killer hook chorus. The thing actually moves -- unlike 99 percent of her 1989 album. It sizzles. I wish she had done it onstage in California.

"Stevie Nicks sang DOCKLANDS live back East, but all I got was this crappy bootleg."

P.S. Stevie & her pals sang JANE live at the GOODALL Tribute in 1991. No recording of it has ever surfaced. I think we'd go bananas for it if it ever did.